Horus Swift (Apus horus)

Other Names (World)
Horus Swift, Toulson's Swift (toulsoni), Loanda Swift (fuscobrunneus)

Family
Apodidae (Swifts)

Size
13 - 15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Heuglin, 1869)

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Call is a buzzing 'peeeeooo, peeeeooo'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (2)...)

Horus Swift (Apus horus) [XC410343]
by Bram Piot from Gamadji Sare, Podor, Senegal (call)

Horus Swift (Apus horus) [XC438049]
by id from Gamadji Sare, Podor, Senegal (call)

Subspecies
Horus Swift (Apus horus) and Loanda Swift (Apus toulsoni) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include toulsoni as a subspecies of Horus Swift (Apus horus).

Taxonomic status of form "toulsoni" of north-western Angola and Zimbabwe is highly controversial, and it has been considered a full species, but is probably best treated as a dark morph within nominate subspecies.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

horus (Heuglin, 1869) - Central Ethiopia, central-southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, and north-western Uganda to Burundi and eastern Zaire; Zambia to south-western Cape (South Africa); more isolated populations in Nigeria, northern Cameroon, western Chad, western and east-central Sudan, extreme western Zaire and north-western Angola.
fuscobrunneus Brooke, 1971 - South-western Angola. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Loanda Swift (Apus toulsoni).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Horus Swift (Apus horus) - 10 files

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